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MANY studies have confirmed Gasser's original observation1 that the basic relationship between axon and Schwann cell is the invagination of one into the other, the line of invagination being marked by a double layer of the Schwann cell plasma membrane, the mesaxon. By this means a Schwann cell can ensheath several unmyelinated nerve fibres.
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GAMBLE, H. Axon Ensheathing by Ependymal Cells in the Human Embryonic and Foetal Spinal Cord. Nature 218, 182–183 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218182a0
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